One Hundred Word Challenge 4

Greetings all! It’s time for this week’s One Hundred Word Challenge hosted by Velvet Verbosity. And in keeping with the theme of this week’s word, I’ll stop this intro and get to the point. The word of the day is: faster.

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She got up before her kids so that she could look human when she took them for their first day of school. Shouldn’t scare the teachers on the first day; plenty of time for that later.

The older they get, the faster the time flies, she mused. This is the last year the boys will be in the same school. After this, the wilderness that is middle and high school. And then? College most likely, but no matter what, her little boys will be men and, with luck, on their own.